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...away from the boy who, too frightened to report to Mrs. Wood, stayed in hiding. Four days later Frixie's body was found. Some fiend had beaten Frixie, poisoned him, thrown him on a fire, then put the charred body in a laundry sack, cast it into a gutter. Mr. Wood, a wholesale milliner, offered $50 reward for the fiend's capture...
...Vagabond emerged from the drain pipe of the new unit of Adams House where he had been avoiding the heat and looked over the gutter onto Plympton Street late one evening during this examination period, he looked around to see how hard the students of this great University were taking themselves and their studies. The net result was most gratifying. Activity was everywhere. Bottles were crashing into the street, "Ten Cents a Dance" was being sung from a room in Randolph in a voice which betokened the existence of something more substantial than the mere joy of existence, while...
Actor Menjou makes "son of a ?" sound even more opprobrious and gutter-snipish than the term sounded in the mouth of Osgood Perkins who created the managing editor's part in the Broadway Front Page of onetime Chicago Newshawks Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. Items more impolite than any which have previously appeared in cinema are faithfully reproduced from the play's stage version. The scene, which changes rarely through the picture, is the press room of a "Mythical Kingdom's" criminal courts building. Eight reporters are gathered to report the execution of a murderer. Hildy Johnson, the reporter...
...scene of gangland's Armageddon shifted 973 mi. eastward to the sidewalks of New York. At the end of the week these violent and criminal happenings were recorded: ¶Early one morning the body of Frank Marco, alias Callahan, gunman, hijacker, was found in a midtown gutter. He was suspected of killing Tony Lombardo, one-time head of Chicago's Unione Siciliano. Gangster Marco was shot seven times, his head hacked with a meat cleaver. His wife Yvonne, once married to Crooner Harry Richman (onetime suitor of Cinemactress Clara Bow), disappeared when police stupidly notified her by telephone...
Next day the Chief of Police said: "I feel that Belgrade's reputation for honesty has been sustained. Within a few hours after her loss I had the pleasure of restoring to Princess Chichibu her jeweled collar. A local Belgrade photographer found it in the gutter and at once turned it in at our Central Police Station. As to the loss which Princess Olga sustained in the American Legation we are working on the theory that a kleptomaniac was to blame. The people of Belgrade are fundamentally honest...